How To Teach Your Horse To Smile

For a long time now, we have been receiving regular requests for a video showing how to teach your horse to smile. This can be an effective relationship-building exercise that engages your horse's mind and promotes relaxation. In this video, Elisa works with Briggs Surratt at Poplar place Farm and makes quick work of teaching his horse, Hat Trick, this new game.
Video filmed and edited by Timothy D. Harfield

[@chesnoodle]

This is by far the best tutorial I have seen on teaching a horse to smile! I tried this recently and my horse figured it out within 2 minutes thank you!!

[@mylilbigfire]

for do it more easily you can use a food that he doesn't know, because horses do the "smile" when they smell something that they don't know:)

[@oliviascrivner6684]

this helped me so much! Thank you, it was so much better than the other videos!

[@lainam269]

I'm gonna start teaching my pony to do this.

[@robynleitner4174]

This is awesome! I think you should post more "how to" posts! :)

[@equestriansisters3348]

We loved this video and we taught ours to smile! :-) Thank you x

[@laurienwoodley2349]

This didn’t work for me :(

[@megancurnick9827]

What if your horse can't have carrots because carrots make my horse over suger

[@amina-ob5pr]

Megan Curnick use oats

[@ari_2130]

My horse doesn’t like carrots